1937 · Cairo:
by WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890-1961) & Norman Macdonnell KEITH (1885-1976).
Cairo:: Imprimerie Nationale Boulac, 1937., 1937. At head of title: XV Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1937, Egypte. 248 x 166 mm. 8vo. Pages 1-86. [Entire volume: [ii], 283 pp.] Bibliog., 42 figs. on plates; extensive underlining and marginalia. Modern quarter brown cloth, patterned paper over boards, gilt spine, original printed wrappers bound in. Ms. notation on original top cover. Bookplate. Very good. RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. "Wagner and Keith classified essential hypertension and lesions of the fundus into four groups." See: Garrison and Morton 2723 and 2922. Henry Wagener wrote mostly on ocular changes in hypertension. Together with Keith he set up a classification of retinal hypertensive changes that was popular." Gorin, History of ophthalmology, p. 336. This volume includes: P. Bailliart, "L'hypertension arterielle retinienne," and Y. Koyanagi, "Veranderungen an der Netzhaut bei Hochdruck. Pathologische Anatomie."
(Inventory #: M12881)